..poetry's most powerful lines ever written...

seribulan

      “the bouquet

Between me and the world
you are a bay, a sail
the faithful ends of a rope
you are a fountain, a wind,
a shrill childhood cry.

Between me and the world
you are a picture frame, a window
a field covered in wildflowers
you are a breath, a bed,
a night that keeps the stars company.

Between me and the world,
you are a calendar, a compass
a ray of light that slips through the gloom
you are a biographical sketch, a book mark
a preface that comes at the end.

between me and the world
you are a gauze curtain, a mist
a lamp shining in my dreams
you are a bamboo flute, a song without words
a closed eyelid carved in stone.

Between me and the world
you are a chasm, a pool
an abyss plunging down
you are a balustrade, a wall
a shield’s eternal pattern.”  
  ―    Bei Dao

kakiseboksebok

One of my favourite poem.

"Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana
Seperti kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana
Seperti isyarat yang tak sempat dikirimkan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada"

Aku Ingin- Sapardi Djoko Damono

LMH_NIR

i suka most of the poem by Maya Angelou..

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns rays
And dares to claim the sky.

But a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with
A fearful trill of things unknown
But longed for still and his
Tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom.

nafizzz

Hamka
“Bila kemiskinan berada di ambang pintu, cinta lari melalui tingkap”.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To Meet To Love To Part
is a sad tale in many a human heart"

seribulan

The weight of the world / is love / Under the burden / of solitude, / under the burden / of dissatisfaction / the weight, / the weight we carry / is love
'Song', Allen Ginsberg

farhana008

Dr pak mario

reginagrace

You have brains in your head you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

reginagrace

On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You’re a fool. I don’t care.
the head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across.


Wendy Cope

golden_rose

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost

golden_rose

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of being and ideal grace."

How Do I Love Thee?, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

golden_rose

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate"

Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

golden_rose

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep, / And nodding by the fire, take down this book / And slowly read, and dream of the soft look / Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep"

When You are Old, W. B. Yeats

golden_rose

"Do not go gentle into that good night, / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas

golden_rose

"But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only, / That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. / Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered - / Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before - / On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' / Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'"

The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

golden_rose

"When we two parted / In silence and tears, / Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew thy cheek and cold, / Colder thy kiss; / Truly that hour foretold / Sorrow to this."

When We Two Parted, George (Lord) Byron

IxoraP

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. -
- Robert Frost

anikarma

You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise
'Still I Rise', Maya Angelou

seribulan

    She's come undone

    She didn't know what she was headed for

    And when I found what she was headed for

    It was too late

    -- The Guess Who, "Undun", 1969

reginagrace

Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

- Wendy Cope

reginagrace

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.

~ Ogden Nash, A Word To Husbands